Speaking Of Butchers

August 4, 1985

WHEN COLUMNIST Charley Reese was ranking the modern butchers of the world, he erred in saying the communists were the first to use genocide and mass murder. The American colonizers began the conquest of this continent with the successful deportation and extermination of its native population.

Reese's omission may depend on how he defines modern. But any way it is defined, the people in Moscow, whom Reese claims ''taught Adolf Hitler all he knew,'' followed the footsteps of the North American colo- nizers.